This Collaboration

from Trick Knots by Secret Primper

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You wizened old goat
With your glories behind you
I know your work note for note
I guess the rumors aren’t untrue

Lost your eyesight halfway through the war
Lost the rest to a pert Parisian whore

Now you can’t play worth a lick
But your ears are still golden
And your melodies stick
Into all that behold them

You could use my hands
And I could use your name
Together we’ll resuscitate
Your decaying fame

This collaboration born out of desperation
Has potential to raise unanimous praise one day
This collaboration may lead to frustration
But it’s our last gasp ‘fore we slip in the past to stay

I was born into wealth
Learned my scales in London
But I found it’s bad for my health
Not keeping my tongue in

My temper helped blackball my symphony
My thirst for cards ate up my salary

I arrived at your door
And I passed my audition
It didn’t hurt that your wife
Liked my young disposition

I spent all winter long
Scoring on both sets
And how the press ate up all
Of our daring new duets

Bridge D minor
I’m up til midnight making the edits
I write the parts, you get most of the credit
We’re using each other but don’t really regret it

I knew it wouldn’t end well
By June you’d had enough of me
But now my name’s beneath yours
On the Palladium marquee

And backwards I won’t look
I pilfered your rare books
And the funds will help ignite my legacy

This collaboration has been my motivation
To heave your shadow off my wrenched back
This collaboration will bring me vindication
We’ll let the public decide, who’s star will rise, and whose will fade to black.

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from Trick Knots, track released August 9, 2011
Dave Deggeller: all instruments and vocals
Ava Hawkinson: vocals

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Secret Primper Sunnyvale, California

Secret Primper is Dave Deggeller's home recording project, and occasional real life band.

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